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ｌｕｃｒｅｚｉａ ☩ ｂｏｒｇｉａ ([personal profile] mansuetus) wrote in [community profile] ataraxion2013-07-01 11:24 pm
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Audentes fortuna iuvat.

Does fortune favors us, Tranquility?

Caesar himself was quite devoted to boldness and fortune; alea jacta est he said and the goddess of fortune favored him for many years.

in the end, she did not. it is a tricky thing, fortune and quite a riddle to guess.

[ that aside ]

An assistance is needed! For baking a cake to a friend whom I favor greatly and who, I decided, celebrates his birthday today.
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[personal profile] thebreakingwave 2013-07-01 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
No. For something to favour something else, it has to be alive and think.

The powder that makes up most of the cake, all the dry parts, is already mixed up, but the cake itself isn't baked.
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[personal profile] mansuetus 2013-07-02 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
ah! I suppose that is why Caesar called it the goddess of fortune. and well after him, we pray to God to give us the same fortune.

almost like magic!
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[personal profile] thebreakingwave 2013-07-02 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't really know much at all about Roman gods, but I suppose so.

It's no more like magic than having bubbles and clean clothing when you mix soap and water. Which, come to think of it, might be more like magic than a box of cake mix. I know how a box of cake mix works, but not how soap cleans things. I know that it does, but now how it is, is what I mean.
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[personal profile] mansuetus 2013-07-04 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
then perhaps anything that we cannot quite understand is magic to us? but I find it odd to say now that I have seen magic at work, to be truthful. I would never have believed it before.
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[personal profile] thebreakingwave 2013-07-04 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Even magic has rules and can be understood.
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[personal profile] mansuetus 2013-07-06 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I was told once that one cannot quite make something out of nothing, even with magic.

[ one of the lessons of magic taught to her by one Sirius Black. ]
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[personal profile] thebreakingwave 2013-07-07 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It's true. You always need a base for your work.
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[personal profile] mansuetus 2013-07-09 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
You are able of magic then? of the spell words and the wondrous happenings? Some in my Rome would name it a dark force, a blasphemous one. I have come to know better since my arrival here.
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[personal profile] thebreakingwave 2013-07-09 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a wizard.

I can understand why they might not approve of it, but in my experience, magic is just like any other tool. You can use it for good or ill.
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[personal profile] mansuetus 2013-07-09 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
A wizard! the third one I have met here. Your name?
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[personal profile] thebreakingwave 2013-07-09 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm Harry. And yourself?
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[personal profile] mansuetus 2013-07-09 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry. And I am Lucrezia Borgia; a pleasure.
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[personal profile] thebreakingwave 2013-07-09 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Likewise.

Good luck with your cake!
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[personal profile] mansuetus 2013-07-09 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you! if I shall ever find cake mix I shall know what to do with it and it would be because of your help.
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